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Pomme de Terror
Sep 30, 2021

Well, one of us must have killed him!
AITA for leaving my "friends" wedding when she told me I needed to cover up my psoriasis?

quote:

I (24F) have psoriasis, it’s all over my body and presents like vitiligo in a way, just so you can get an image in your head. I have medicated cream that helps with the itchiness, and also it helps with the dryness. The psoriasis is all over my body with it stopping right on my neck, and I do have a few spots on the sides of my face near my ears.

I’ve always been pretty embarrassed as I cannot cake on enough makeup to truly cover my psoriasis as it is textured and thick, and on top of that, no matter what I do or however I attempt to apply said makeup it always looks horrible, my doctor also recommended not to smother the areas with makeup as it tends to make it worse and itchier.

Anyways, onto the story. My friend's wedding was on Saturday and of course, I was invited. I bought a dress that would cover my body fairly well as I really didn’t want to draw any attention to myself. The entire week leading up to the wedding I was continuously testing concealers on the remaining spots that were exposed, which only made me itchy and I basically scratched my skin raw. With psoriasis, those areas sometimes bleed if I scratch too much, which is what happened.

My boyfriend who was attending the wedding with me told me I shouldn’t worry about it and that it would be better if I stopped trying to cover them as it was just making it worse.

I reluctantly agreed, and we attended the wedding ceremony. It was great, I was extremely happy for my friend and her now husband. But as we were leaving to go to cocktail hour, she pulled me aside and asked if I was going home to cover my psoriasis.

I was a little taken aback and explained I couldn’t as the entire week I had been testing concealers and it made it 20 times worse. She told me she didn’t care and that this was her wedding and she didn’t want her guests asking me questions or feeling queasy during dinner.

My boyfriend stepped in and told her if that was the case we would be leaving and not attending the rest of the wedding. She was pissed off and extremely angry at that choice, and ever since then she’s been ranting to our friends about it.

AITA here?

We appreciate a boyfriend with a spine

Also, as someone with visible skin issues similar to this lady, boyfriend was a lot nicer than I would have been

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Arsenic Lupin
Apr 12, 2012

This particularly rapid💨 unintelligible 😖patter💁 isn't generally heard🧏‍♂️, and if it is🤔, it doesn't matter💁.


Halloween Jack posted:

They pulled all my teeth. And what's worse, Swan stole my music!
We're old souls in a new world, honey.

InsertPotPun
Apr 16, 2018

Pissy Bitch stan
"i'm in a fight with a loved one, i better call every mutual acquaintance and have them weigh in. surely THAT will prove i'm right!"
if i ever got a call from someone bitching at me about something that didn't involve them there'd be ANOTHER round of messaging and even more assholes randomly calling me because i'd burn them to death with words. wordingly.
burn them to death wordingly.

3D Megadoodoo posted:

e: My dad wasn't the size of a plum in his early 20s, the tumor was.
i have so much in common with this man!

Malachite_Dragon
Mar 31, 2010

Weaving Merry Christmas magic

Mx. posted:

Update on the cat-stealing sister

AITA for stealing my cat back and telling my sister to never contact me again?


Acid vat is too merciful for pet thieves. Light them on fire.

keep punching joe
Jan 22, 2006

Die Satan!

Malachite_Dragon posted:

Yeah, uh, no, AIs of dead people can only end one way

Dead girlfriend chatbot starts denying the holocaust?

RenegadeStyle1
Jun 7, 2005

Baby Come Back

InsertPotPun posted:

"i'm in a fight with a loved one, i better call every mutual acquaintance and have them weigh in. surely THAT will prove i'm right!"
if i ever got a call from someone bitching at me about something that didn't involve them there'd be ANOTHER round of messaging and even more assholes randomly calling me because i'd burn them to death with words. wordingly.
burn them to death wordingly.

i have so much in common with this man!

I'll never understand it. I couldn't imagine having any other response then "who the gently caress are you? Mind your business bitch".

Halloween Jack
Sep 12, 2003
I WILL CUT OFF BOTH OF MY ARMS BEFORE I VOTE FOR ANYONE THAT IS MORE POPULAR THAN BERNIE!!!!!
Some part of me wants my whole extended family to start an extremely messy group chat about some meaningless slight, just so I can post irrelevant memes at them and make a big show of not caring. I think my cousins would enjoy it, and if my dad ends up asking me what "corncobbed" means it will be very funny.

Mx.
Dec 16, 2006

I'm a great fan! When I watch TV I'm always saying "That's political correctness gone mad!"
Why thankyew!


AITA for tipping behind my mom’s back?

quote:

To put it simply, my mom is a restaurant Karen.

She snaps her fingers at waitstaff. She asks them to change the temperature in the restaurant if she’s too hot or too cold. She regularly sends food back for very minor things. She complains to the manager if the wait is more than 20 minutes, regardless of how busy the restaurant is. In her mind, she’s alway in the right. She believes as long as she says please and thank you she can be as difficult as she wants.

Recently, she’s taken on a new habit of being an awful tipper. The other day we ate at a restaurant where you order and pay at the counter, and then they bring you your food. She decided not to tip at all.

That didn’t sit right with me, so while she went to grab our seats I apologized to the man at the counter and put a 10 in the tip jar. We got our food and ate, and when we got up, she threw a whole $1 on the table. For a $45 meal.

In the parking lot, I expressed how wrong I thought this was. She said that she doesn’t tip at restaurants where they don’t take your order at the table, because the staff “didn’t earn it”.

I explained that, as much as I hate tipping culture too, restaurant staff rely on it. They can make less than minimum wage, and if people like her refuse to tip they won’t make enough to live off of. I said it was a good thing I went back to tip the guy at the counter earlier.

She got pissed and said that I was wrong to do that. That she paid for my meal, and I was being disrespectful by undermining her and tipping behind her back.

I feel she’s the one in the wrong here. Eating out with her has become downright embarrassing because of the way she acts. The newfound lovely tipping has made me not want to eat out with her at all.

But she DID pay for my meal. So AITA?

ETA: this was a local deli we ate at, not like a subway or anything. But I would tip there too, personally.

Barudak
May 7, 2007

Your mom is a menace to society and can only be stopped if we outlaw sub minimum wage for tipping

Kitfox88
Aug 21, 2007

Anybody lose their glasses?

Midnight Voyager posted:

There was a period of time where they'd pull your teeth if you had mental illness because infection ??? brain bad.

This was much more recent than you'd like.

What I'm saying is that medicine hates teeth.

I hate em too I'd rather gum my food for hours than put up with this loving pain. Removal is expensive though :(

Mr. Fall Down Terror
Jan 24, 2018

by Fluffdaddy

Mx. posted:

AITA for tipping behind my mom’s back?


it doesn't matter what someone thinks of tipping, this person is simply being as much of an rear end in a top hat as they are socially allowed to be and its good to compensate workers who have to put up with this poo poo

anyway i just came to this thread to post this http://www.dipac.net/

mllaneza
Apr 28, 2007

Veteran, Bermuda Triangle Expeditionary Force, 1993-1952




Mr. Fall Down Terror posted:

it doesn't matter what someone thinks of tipping, this person is simply being as much of an rear end in a top hat as they are socially allowed to be and its good to compensate workers who have to put up with this poo poo

anyway i just came to this thread to post this http://www.dipac.net/

1. Yup, she's scum.

2. Strangely appropriate.

tactlessbastard
Feb 4, 2001

Godspeed, post
Fun Shoe

InsertPotPun posted:

"i'm in a fight with a loved one, i better call every mutual acquaintance and have them weigh in. surely THAT will prove i'm right!"
if i ever got a call from someone bitching at me about something that didn't involve them there'd be ANOTHER round of messaging and even more assholes randomly calling me because i'd burn them to death with words. wordingly.
burn them to death wordingly.

i have so much in common with this man!

There’s so many of these that have a section where all the friends and family weighed in and I always thought that was extremely strange.

But then it comes up so often I was starting to wonder if I was the weird one.

Mx.
Dec 16, 2006

I'm a great fan! When I watch TV I'm always saying "That's political correctness gone mad!"
Why thankyew!


WIBTA for kicking my son out of my house because I do not like his "career"

quote:

My son wanted to take a gap year after finishing HS, we are now on the second year of his gap year, he did attempt one semester of college but then abandoned it.

Now he does gig work, like dog walking and Uber (with my car). He spends most of his time moderating a very popular sub. He says he worked hard to become a moderator and that he sees thinks he has a great talent for it and can eventually make a career doing something similar for money. He spends most of the day doing this. I do believe him as there are very few others who do this and it is very demanding work and there is a lot of competition for the job. However this is an unpaid job so he relies on the gig work.

By comparison my daughter stays rent free but just finished college and started a great job, bought her own car and is now saving for a down payment.

I want to give my son an ultimatum which will force him to do what I want since I doubt he would want to be homeless. I want to tell him that he needs to resign from his "job" and either go back to college which I will pay for, or get a full time job or go to trade school.

WIBTA doing this since I never set any such restrictions for my daughter when she was his age, she just ended up choosing a career path that I approved of by choice.

Captain Hygiene
Sep 17, 2007

You mess with the crabbo...



Mx. posted:

WIBTA for kicking my son out of my house because I do not like his "career"


quote:

He says he worked hard to become a moderator and that he sees thinks he has a great talent for it and can eventually make a career doing something similar for money.

You fool, everyone knows the best ones are unpaid!

Cowslips Warren
Oct 29, 2005

What use had they for tricks and cunning, living in the enemy's warren and paying his price?

Grimey Drawer
AITA for maybe overreacting?

quote:

I was posting things in subs made to post those types of stuff (yes, it was NSFW). I posted three times in like 10 minutes, one post in one sub, two in another (one of which I deleted). Now I'm banned from at least 30 subs, most of which I haven't posted at all in. I was kind at first and asked to be unbanned or to have them at least stop the banning. They refused both and swore at me, so I responded appropriately. They said that nobody appreciates the posts I was posting, EVEN THOUGH THAT SUB WAS MADE FIR THAT TYPE OF STUFF, AND IT DIDN'T SAY THAT I COULDN'T POST WHAT I POSTED (I read the rules twice). Now I can't plead my case because I'm banned from messaging them for a month. AITA for overreacting?



quote:

Tina_DeAngelo
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45 min. ago
INFO: Do Ü remember what Ü posted that they thought was “overboard”?



kittykat3645
OP
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44 min. ago
Yes, it was an invitation to send certain stuff



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CrimsonKnight_004
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35 min. ago
Pooperintendant [55]
What kind of stuff



kittykat3645
OP
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27 min. ago
What do you think. This is Reddit. And I literally stated NSFW.



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CrimsonKnight_004
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26 min. ago
Pooperintendant [55]
Sure, but…not all NSFW is created equal. Like if this was some really niche fetish or perverted paraphilia, then that kind of changes things.



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kittykat3645
OP
·
24 min. ago
No, it was just general. Most vanilla you can get. I didn't specify anything either.

People use Reddit to find porn for them?

FMguru
Sep 10, 2003

peed on;
sexually
That guy who took his girlfriend on a five year anniversary romantic getaway to propose (only to have her invite her friends along at the last minute) has an update.

UPDATE: AITA For Leaving a Vacation I Planned for my GF After Her Friends Came Along?

quote:

From the bottom of my heart, thank you to everyone who sent me kind words and encouraging private messages.

I decided that I wanted to end this entire relationship. I packed my important belongings (Ex. Passport, clothes) and arranged with my best friend to crash at his apartment until I can find my own. Usually when small issues happen in a relationship, it ties into a bigger issue of that relationship. The main reason why I decided to break up is because I realized that her friends will always be closer to her than me. Sarah has favored her friends over me and blown off some of our plans for her friends more than once. I was lying to myself for years because I didn’t want to face reality yet. I had hoped she would change, but this trip really opened my eyes that I will always be in 3rd place to her.I expressed my feelings multiple times, and Sarah promised she would change, and she didn’t.

Sarah came home late yesterday. I said I have a lot to get off my chest and I want to get through my notes before she talks or tries to interrupt me. The first question I asked Sarah was “How she thought the trip went”. She said we all had fun and it was memorable. I shouldn’t have to feel like the 3rd wheel in my own relationship, especially on a trip that I planned.

My next question was “Why did you invite your friends in the first place? You knew this was an anniversary trip for US”. She talked about the trip with her friends since the beginning, and they never been to CO. She thought it would be a good idea to allow them to come just so they can have fun in CO with us. I followed up with my lack of knowledge of her friends coming along until days before. It’s one thing if they came and did their OWN activities. But it’s another thing that every activity became a group activity. I signed up for a monogamous, not poly relationship.

My last question was “Did you know that I was going to propose to you?”. Sarah said she didn’t know at all. The thought never occurred to Sarah that I was going to ask. She claimed that she wouldn’t have invited her friends to come along if she knew, but I responded that “it would ruin the surprise if I told you”.

Sarah begged me to stay with her and believes we can work everything out. She didn’t want me to throw 5 years away after this one bad trip. I listened to her promises to change for years regarding her friends, but nothing happened. I ultimately left Sarah with this: it’s clear that there isn’t enough room in your heart for your BF and your friends. As much as I love Sarah, I can’t stay in a relationship where I’m not respected enough. I left Sarah in the house by herself and I drove off to my friend’s place.

I’ll figure out how to get my name off the lease and I’ll plan to get the rest of my belongings. As for the ring, I will return it this weekend.
Remember, it's never too late to find your inner Pete.

The Maroon Hawk
May 10, 2008

Mx. posted:

Update on the cat-stealing sister

AITA for stealing my cat back and telling my sister to never contact me again?


r/relationships: I am not being dramatic

(note: I do not think this OP in particular is being dramatic)

Halloween Jack
Sep 12, 2003
I WILL CUT OFF BOTH OF MY ARMS BEFORE I VOTE FOR ANYONE THAT IS MORE POPULAR THAN BERNIE!!!!!
My son just wants to bbe a moderator

Serephina
Nov 8, 2005

恐竜戦隊
ジュウレンジャー

FMguru posted:

That guy who took his girlfriend on a five year anniversary romantic getaway to propose (only to have her invite her friends along at the last minute) has an update.

UPDATE: AITA For Leaving a Vacation I Planned for my GF After Her Friends Came Along?

Remember, it's never too late to find your inner Pete.

Good for him for having self-respect, but it's not the first time that I've heard of a failed proposal ending the relationship. That's crazy to me! If you where seriously looking at marriage, I would have thought the relationship is more than one major disagreement away from dissolution.

Barudak
May 7, 2007

Serephina posted:

Good for him for having self-respect, but it's not the first time that I've heard of a failed proposal ending the relationship. That's crazy to me! If you where seriously looking at marriage, I would have thought the relationship is more than one major disagreement away from dissolution.

Its a pivotal enough moment that you realize "whoa wait, this is not a thing I should keep ignoring"

Midnight Voyager
Jul 2, 2008

Lipstick Apathy

Serephina posted:

Good for him for having self-respect, but it's not the first time that I've heard of a failed proposal ending the relationship. That's crazy to me! If you where seriously looking at marriage, I would have thought the relationship is more than one major disagreement away from dissolution.

I think it's tonal dissonance? You're planning this amazing, happy occasion and that thing that bothers you gets in the way of it and you realize it's bad enough to kill what should be an amazing, happy occasion, how the hell have you ignored it this long?

Kitfox88
Aug 21, 2007

Anybody lose their glasses?
Yeah, I'm betting in most cases it's not 'well the proposal fell through time to :sever:', but instead 'the proposal fell through and the reasons why feel oddly familiar' leading to the dam breaking and realizing that they should have ended the relationship sooner.

atomicdream
Oct 4, 2017

shaking my money maker to fund my crippling glamour addiction.

Malachite_Dragon posted:

Acid vat is too merciful for pet thieves. Light them on fire.

Definitely read this as acid cat and now I'm imagining the Yule Cat, but dripping in green acid, hunting down these assholes to toy with them between their paws before snapping them in the air and catching them in their mouth.

The Acid Cat also will leave these assholes on your front porch as a gift, just like a normal cat would gift you a dead pigeon.

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal
Light them on fire, put them out with the acid hose

Nice Tuckpointing!
Nov 3, 2005

AITA for wanting to exclude my sister?

quote:


My (15F) family likes to have a movie night, we basically do that on Fridays when my parents don't have work and my sister (19,F) doesn't have too much work for college. It usually happens like once a month. Mom insists on doing it or just having us all play a game so we can bond and have a good time and it is really fun so no one complains about it.

Anyways, I recently noticed that my sister (19,F) starts crying everytime we watch a movie. Like not the sad movies or anything like that, any movie that's for younger kids that we usually put on for my other sister (10, F) just has her face tearful. It's usually random movies about friendship or simple ideas like that or just Disney movies or Studio Ghibli ones. She doesn't cry at all at anything else. I have no idea why. It's also during random parts of the movie that it makes no sense to cry about (like someone flying, or someone hugging someone, or someone sitting in a garden or something).

No one else really notices because it's usually dark and we don't really talk during movies. Plus my sister is very unemotional usually and this is so unexpected that even if I told anyone they wouldn't believe me till they saw it (she also makes no sound anyways). It also only happens that my sister is seated next to me during the movies and my parents and other sister are further away so they wouldn't notice at all. I notice because I usually have to check my phone so her face is a bit clearer for me.

This week my mom suggested another movie like that for us to watch next week. And since this time she agreed we'd be doing it with my friend coming over I thought it would ruin the mood for the night if she saw my sister like that and it was just not something I want to deal with. My friend is also nosy and knows my sister very well and I kind of just want us to have fun without my sister in the picture.

So here is where I may be TA, I told my mom I'm okay doing it as long as my sister is not there. And if she is there then she has to stop crying over nothing and control her emotions for the night. My mom didn't see where I was coming from and told me if that's the case then they will do it without me. I don't really want that so I told her that my sister is too old for this anyways and we could just not invite her from now on. She looked really upset and told me to go to my room. AITA?

My favorite comment:

"You asked a question and you have gotten an overwhelmingly clear response that you were, indeed, the rear end in a top hat with no empathy for your sister.

"Has this prompted any kind of self reflection on your part, where you try to see how you were in the wrong? Your comments show no indication of any kind of introspection or learning."

And OP's reply:

quote:

I'll think about it, I didn't expect anyone to be on her side

Followed by dozens of responses pointing out that everyone is on her sister's side.

Good response from the mom, though.

PancakeTransmission
May 27, 2007

You gotta improvise, Lisa: cloves, Tom Collins mix, frozen pie crust...


Plaster Town Cop

Serephina posted:

Good for him for having self-respect, but it's not the first time that I've heard of a failed proposal ending the relationship. That's crazy to me! If you where seriously looking at marriage, I would have thought the relationship is more than one major disagreement away from dissolution.

I've seen in some of them, it's one of people completely ignoring what the other wants. Or perhaps, what they did wasn't enough (ring not expensive enough, not enough ceremony). The proposal is where they realise that it's not going to work out, during a moment of vulnerability.

atomicdream
Oct 4, 2017

shaking my money maker to fund my crippling glamour addiction.
AITA because my sister couldn't make cornbread?


quote:

Ok a little backstory before i get into all of this: All of my siblings and myself are going to school to become psychologists, except for my sister Anna, (27f) About a month into her first year of college, she met a man name Walter (now 28m) after two years of dating, they got engaged. About a few months after meeting, anna started talking about changing courses from psychology, to culinary. Anna claimed she "never felt so happy then when shes cooking" Our father, who pays for college, did not want to pay for culinary school unless she got her degree in Psychology. Which she did, then she got to go to culinary classes where she almost failed cause she couldn't crack an egg. She passed anyway Our family hosts a dinner every 2 months on the first day of the second month. No excuses, you had to be there. Everyone had to bring a side dish, while mom cooked the main meal.

Well a few nights ago, anna and walter came with two things: cornbread and ham. See, if nothing else, anna makes AMAZING cornbread. Its the tastiest the family has ever had. Father made a joke that if nothing else, the cornbread was worth the thousands he put into her schooling.

Anna works at some three star restaurant and it shows, her food is almost the same as something from olive garden or ruby Tuesdays. So she sets the cornbread down and right away i could tell it looked different. But shrugged it off. Mother was upset about the ham, because she had made a chicken, and the ham had pineapple on it?? So no one really ate it.

When it came time for the cornbread however, everyone was in shock at how BAD it was. It was dry and bland, even our brothers (25m 24m) started pretending to gag on it. Our mother asked her how could she make the bread so disgusting, since she had done it right so many times.

Anna broke down and said it wasn't HER corn bread, it was BOXED cornbread. Like, the 1.00$ box at whole foods.

Well needless to say everyone got upset and our father asked her what good was her cooking courses if she wasn't going to cook. Anna got real silent and walter snapped that anna had been working a double shift at the restaurant and didn't have time to get all the ingredients.

Well anna broke down in tears. Our parents just started clearing the table and i told her that if she needed ingredients she could have just borrowed some from work. Walter snapped at me, calling me and the family ungrateful, and then picked up anna and carried her out to the car. Mother waited a few days and called, asking for an apology for ruining our nice family dinner but walter told her to screw off and to not contact anna unless WE wanted to apologize. Well, anna had already made our parents disappointed with her schooling, so she simply told us that our sister was no longer welcomed into the house until she apologizes and breaks off things with walter.

Its been like, 9 days how can i tell her that she just needs to grow up and apologize for the cornbread?

Kenshin
Jan 10, 2007

atomicdream posted:

AITA because my sister couldn't make cornbread?

:lol: an entirely family of emotionally-stunted psychologists? Alright then

Barudak
May 7, 2007

Kenshin posted:

:lol: an entirely family of emotionally-stunted psychologists? Alright then

You see, we wanted to make the most toxic environment possible with our primary family, then had control families separately.

Mx.
Dec 16, 2006

I'm a great fan! When I watch TV I'm always saying "That's political correctness gone mad!"
Why thankyew!


just borrow ingredients from your work
you can give them back after, duh

Dazerbeams
Jul 8, 2009

atomicdream posted:

AITA because my sister couldn't make cornbread?

quote:

Anna works at some three star restaurant and it shows, her food is almost the same as something from olive garden or ruby Tuesdays
Harsh.

Kenshin
Jan 10, 2007

atomicdream posted:

AITA because my sister couldn't make cornbread?

also just lmao, I can't tell if the OP is incredibly basic or is throwing mad shade:

quote:

Anna works at some three star restaurant and it shows, her food is almost the same as something from olive garden or ruby Tuesdays.

Serephina
Nov 8, 2005

恐竜戦隊
ジュウレンジャー
Nevermind all of that, skipping out on ham with a pineapple glaze is just cheating yourself. They deserved the dollar store cornbread.

edit: and the burn on her cooking is good, true or not.

wheatpuppy
Apr 25, 2008

YOU HAVE MY POST!

Mx. posted:

just borrow ingredients from your work
you can give them back after, duh

Especially those 3-star restaurants, like Olive Garden.

atomicdream
Oct 4, 2017

shaking my money maker to fund my crippling glamour addiction.
And like.. Jiffy cornbread is not bad. Barring sawdust in it, just about all cornbread is gonna be delicious.

Edit: comments by OP indicate Anna works at a 3star MICHELIN restaurant. Which makes the OG and RT comments even more absurd.

(also, because I can't not mention it whenever Michelin is brought up - the Michelin Man actually has a name and it's Bibendium.)

atomicdream fucked around with this message at 08:43 on Feb 10, 2023

QuarkJets
Sep 8, 2008

Please do not ever tell someone that their cooking is as good as Ruby Tuesdays

Barudak
May 7, 2007

QuarkJets posted:

Please do not ever tell someone that their cooking is as good as Ruby Tuesdays

I remember somebody in college called someone's cooking "as good as applebees" and did not understand why a fight was about to break out

Quackles
Aug 11, 2018

Pixels of Light.


atomicdream posted:

(also, because I can't not mention it whenever Michelin is brought up - the Michelin Man actually has a name and it's Bibendium.)

:what:

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Bored
Jul 26, 2007

Dude, ix-nay on the oice-vay.

Kitfox88 posted:

I hate em too I'd rather gum my food for hours than put up with this loving pain. Removal is expensive though :(

See if you can go to an oral surgeon, if you have either dental OR health insurance. My single tooth extraction went only through dental insurance with the oral surgeon and ended up costing a total of, like, 23 bucks, since he actually had access to the local anesthesia that works on me. That went through the dental insurance. I did not actually need general anesthesia like the dentists expected.

Each extraction, including the one that was healthy that I did not agree to, cost between 80 and 140 at the dentists. I’m sure the massive range had to do with how many shots they gave me in an attempt to numb me up.

Of course, if you are poor, going to the dentist is terrifying because not only is it possible you will see a dentist who sucks, but you will also be charged a ton for that absolutely awful care. I realized that I was not just being paranoid about the first dentist being awful when she insisted I would need a root canal in the sockets after having my teeth pulled.

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